Note 10 — NEW CUSTOM.
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i.e., Umpires. So Spenser—
"For what art thou That makst thyself his daysman, to prolong The vengeance past?"—Faerie Queene.—S.
A days-man, says Ray, in his "Collection of North Country Words," p. 25, is "an arbitrator, an umpire or judge. For, as Dr Hammond observes in his Annotation on Heb. x. 25, p. 752, the word day, in all languages and idioms, signifies judgment. So man's day, 1 Cor. iii. 13, is the judgment of men. So diem dicere in Latin is to implead."